48
Lake Umbagog.
1897.
May 11
(No 2)
  We reached Lakeside at 6 P.M. and after tea walked 
along the road to the eastward as far as the deep hollow.
[margin]Lakeside.[/margin]
  Heard two Woodcock singing both in places where birds
sang regularly last year, one on the hill above Lakeside,
the other in the Brown clearing where we found the nest
in 1896.
[margin]Woodcock[/margin]
  Heard also numerous Peabody Birds, two Hermit Thrushes
(one singing, the other whirring) several Robins and a 
Whippoorwill, the last on the lower side of the road in
the Brown clearing. 
[margin]Whippoorwill[/margin]
  At Bethel the vegetation is about a week behind that
of eastern Massachusetts; here it is fully two weeks
behind. The only green in the woods is that of the
paper birches & they are only just beginning to unfold
their leaves. Trilliums were in bloom as far up the
road as the Notch but above the Notch the buds
had not opened. The fields here are very green in
places, in others the grass is s[?] & brown. This
Lake opened on the 6th, Richardson Lake on the
9th. About two weeks ago the thermometer here fell
to zero Fahr. one night.
[margin]Vegetation[/margin]
  From what I saw of the smaller birds to-day & yesterday
I think that the first great "rush" of Warblers reached
Bethel yesterday but that it had stopped there.
As it is warm to-night with a south wind we
shall probably see [a] large number of "arrivals" here
to-morrow.
[margin]Bulk 
of the 
summer
birds not
here yet.[/margin]